No other candidate got more than 8%. But recently the Bernie Sanders campaign did release a tidbit of information that was fascinating – at least to the Biglaw gadflies here at Above the Law.
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A majority of the voters surveyed – 57 percent – also said that Sanders would do better with the economy, while just 33 percent said the same for Clinton.
The state has a substantial number of African-American voters unlike Iowa and New Hampshire, according to statistics.
“There isn’t another Democratic debate before Iowa or before the primary in New Hampshire”, Maddow asked in the interview, which was conducted over the phone.
So there’s a case to be made that Sanders made an important contribution to the final legislation, but he oversells his role when he says he “helped write” it.
“Sanders talked about a revolution, while Clinton was much more pragmatic and would closely resemble a third term of President Obama”, he said, adding that the “closely fought two-hour debate probably did little to move the needle”. What I have tried to do from day one is to run an issue-oriented campaign, and the reason you run is to show the differences of opinion – you know, you have different opinions. The former secretary of state evoked the president several times during the debate, arguing in essence, that she was the rightful heir of his presidency or at least the most qualified to defend and build upon the work that he has done.
The letter closes: “We need a Commander in Chief who sees how all of these dynamics fit together – someone who sees the whole chessboard, as Hillary Clinton does”.
“We now have driven costs down to the lowest they’ve been in 50 years”, she said. “I believe that he has a specific task which is to make sure that Hillary Clinton gets in by being so obnoxious”.
Clinton has assailed Sanders for peddling a federally administered national single-payer system that would prove too costly, and on Sunday she launched new criticism, saying Sanders’s plan would shred President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which has provided 19 million new people with health insurance.
Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, who is trailing Clinton and Sanders in polls, also took part in the lively debate in which personal attacks were few and far between. We rate his statement Mostly False. “We’re not going to tear up the Affordable Care Act”. Sanders said in October that he would “take another look” at the liability question.
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Perhaps foreshadowing future ads, the Republican National Committee noted that Democrats at Sunday’s debate had backed the current occupant of the White House.
